Release Date: 01 April 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 034571120720
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Various Composers
Description
From the eleventh century, Venetian mariners gathered together once each year to offer prayers to San Nicolò, the patron saint of sailors, asking for his continued protection. Initially the service was a simple benediction in which the Adriatic Sea was blessed with holy water. By the late-sixteenth century the ceremony had evolved into one of the most lavish and important dates in the Venetian calendar. Ascension Day now launched a large spring festival which was headed by the symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic—the Sposalizio.
Robert King and his serried ranks of instrumentalists and singers recreate this glorious event in the grandest style. Giovanni Gabrieli's twenty-two-part Sonata (his largest-scale instrumental work), Andrea Gabrieli's 'Battle' Canzona, the church bells of Venice, fanfares for trumpets and drums, the massive sixteen-part madrigal Udite, chiari—the catalogue of riches goes on …
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Laurence Perkins
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Antal Dorati; Minneapolis SO; Philharmonia Hungarica
Frans Bruggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Olga Pasiecznik, Roel
Lorenzo Coppola, {oh!} Orchestra, Martyna Pastuszka
Violina Petrychenko; Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra
Anaelle Tourret, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Vasily Petrenko, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bar A
Various artists
